The World Chess Championship is being held in Astana, Kaszakhstan starting on April 9, 2023. This time out the world #2 Russian GM Yan Nepomniachtchi is facing off against world #3 China's GM Ding Liren. The former world champion Magnus Carlsen has declined to participate, so Ding was brought in as a replacement since he finished second in the most recent Candidates tournament after Yan.
GM Richard Rapport, born in Hungary, but now playing for Romania, is serving as Ding's second. GM and FIDE Senior Trainer Xu Jun is the coach of the Chinese national chess team, and is also in Astana.
In Nepomniachtchi's match vs. Carlsen, Peter Leko, Ildar Khairullin and Nikita Vitiugov were Nepo's seconds, but it is not known if they are still serving in this role.
There is a FIDE flag next to Yan on the playing table rather than a Russian flag this time out.
You can watch the games live in a number of different places:
World #5 US GM Hikaru Nakamura is livestreaming coverage of each game on his new channel on kick: https://kick.com/gmhikaru
He later uploads the stream or a recap to his channels on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@GMHikaru/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@MoreGMHikaru/videos
World #6 GM Anish Giri has been doing live commentary for chess.com's channel on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/live/V90CXk1RCMY?feature=share
In the early games he has been joined by US GM Daniel Naroditsky and UK GM David Howell, and in the last half of the match, one time challenger for the title world #7 US GM Fabiano Caruana is scheduled to join.
Caruana has been doing recap videos with US GM Cristian Chirila for their C-Squared Podcast on Youtube:
Former world champion and current world #9 Viswanathan Anand has been doing live commentary on FIDE's channel on Youtube with US GM Irina Krush:
https://www.youtube.com/live/r5ve1MQJP0I?feature=share
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